white house tapes of the nixon administration, 1971-1973
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White House Tapes of the Nixon Administration, 1971-1973 Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, NARA Online Public Access Catalog Identifier: 597542
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Conversation No. 505-001 Conversation No. 505-002 Conversation No. 505-003 Conversation No. 505-004 Conversation No. 505-005 Conversation No. 505-006 Conversation No. 505-007 Conversation No. 505-008 Conversation No. 505-009
Conversation No. 505-010 Conversation No. 505-011 Conversation No. 505-012 Conversation No. 505-013 Conversation No. 505-014 Conversation No. 505-015 Conversation No. 505-016 Conversation No. 505-017 Conversation No. 505-018 Conversation No. 505-019 Conversation No. 505-020 Conversation No. 505-021
Conversation No. 505-001
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:08 am and 10:03 am Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
Charles W. Colson -Assignment
-Unknown activity of May 25, 1971 -Letters
Bull left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.
Conversation No. 505-002 Date: May 26, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:08 am and 10:03 am
Location: Oval Office The President dictated a memorandum.
President dictates a memorandum -William P. Rogers -Middle East
-Israel
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-Jewish community in US -Jewish lobby
-US aid
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[505-002-w001] [Duration: 13s] The President dictates a memorandum
-Middle East -Israel -US aid -Counter to US security interests
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The President dictates a memorandum -Middle East -Israel
-Jewish lobby
-Financial contributions to Congressmen and Senators -Media -US security interest
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The President dictates a memorandum -Middle East
-Israel -Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration, 1956 -Israelis -British
-French -War -Role of major powers -Receded from world affairs
-The President’s campaign -John Foster Dulles -Aswan Dam a mistake -Contributed to events of 1956
-US policy favors Israel too much ******************************************************************************
The President dictates a memorandum -Middle East -Israel
-US policy post 1956 -Persecution of Jews during World War II -Condition of Arab refugees -President's African trip, 1957
-Israel -Egypt -Morocco -Tunisia
-Reaction by US Jewish community to report ******************************************************************************
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[505-002-w003] [Duration: 15s]
The President dictates a memorandum -Middle East -Israel -Current policy
-US interests are paramount ******************************************************************************
The President dictates a memorandum -Middle East -Israel
-Current policy -Political decisions
-Peace prospects
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The President dictates a memorandum -Middle East -Israel
-Current policy -National security -Side with Israel when necessary -Use as deterrent
-Peace -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -Strong influence on Egypt and other countries -Interests of US
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-Israel -Egypt -Jordan
-Arabs–Israelis -Even-handed policy [Pause]
Instructions on dictated statement -William P. Rogers -Transcription
-Top secret–eyes only -Addressing Israel
-Leaders -1970 election in US -1972 election in US -Quaker group
-Memorandum -Max M. Fisher -Percentage of Jewish vote -The President’s opinion
-US policy -Aid to Israel -William P. Rogers's recommendations -Agreement by June or July 1971
-Override vetoes -John N. Mitchell -Israeli settlement -Influence of political considerations
-1972 election -Egypt -US arms sales -Anwar el-Sadat
-Presence of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -Policy of reconciliation -Aid
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Israel -Leaders -Israeli settlement
-Negotiations
-President’s possible role
Conversation No. 505-003
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:08 am and 10:03 am Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown person.
Unknown person's schedule
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:03 am.
Conversation No. 505-004
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: 10:03 am - 11:35 am Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
Police -Funeral
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] -Richard A. Moore -Memorandum to William P. Rogers -Telephone call to widow of policeman
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-Moore -President’s view -Richard S. Schweiker
-Bill -John N. Mitchell -Vietnam -Demonstration
-Constituency -Moore -Peter M. Flanigan -Riots
-Police Benevolent Association [PBA] -Charles W. Colson -Moore
-Black Panthers
-Bobby G. Seale -Jury
-Chicago -Unknown woman
Marijuana
-Statement -Domestic Council
-News summary -Jews
-Psychiatrists -Moore
-Legalization -Congress
Henry A. Kissinger entered at 10:08 am.
President’s schedule
-Nguyen Van Thieu -Possible meeting
-Date -Frederick L. Hovde -California
-Budget Sessions
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-North Vietnam -Forthcoming appointments -Paris
-Meeting with Thieu -People's Republic of China [PRC] initiative -Date of Meeting -Anatoliy F. Dobrynin
-Aleksei N. Kosygin’s letter -Walt W. Rostow
-Lyndon B. Johnson Appreciation -Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
-Proposed Trips -Korea -PRC -Greece
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[Duration: 20s] The President’s schedule -Spiro T. Agnew
-Proposed trips -Greece -The President’s opinion -Military
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The President’s schedule -Spiro T. Agnew -Proposed trips
-Korea
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-Thailand -Japan
-Kissinger's trips
-Korea -PRC
-Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan -Kissinger’s forthcoming trip
-Deception ******************************************************************************
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[505-004-w012] [Duration: 11s] The President’s schedule
-Spiro T. Agnew -Proposed trips -Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan -Pakistanis
-US ambassador -Bhutan ******************************************************************************
The President’s schedule -Spiro T. Agnew
-Proposed trips -Pope Paul VI
-Rogers -John A. Volpe
-Italy -Spain -Portugal -Congo
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-Kenya -Cabinet officers’ trips
-Trip report
-Robert H. Finch -Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Maurice H. Stans -Reports
-[Forename unknown] Gleason -Vice President's proposed trips
-Greece -Indonesia
-Australia -New Zealand -Thailand -Iran
-Cabinet officers -Air Force One -Rogers
William F. (“Billy”) Graham -Unknown religious persecution case
-Riga, Latvia -Nikita S. Khrushchev
-Meeting with the President -Anti-Semitism
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -Poland
-James O. Eastland -Negroes
-Poles -Anti-Semitism
-Rogers -Agnew’s possible trip to Israel
Graham
Vice Presidential trips
-Africa -Congo
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-Europe -Austria -Hungary
-Scandinavia -Denmark -Sweden
-Austria
-Germany -Berlin
Dobrynin
-Summit
Planned press conference -Timing
-Audience -Moore -Timing
Schedule -Forthcoming remarks at US Military Academy at West Point
-Moore
Press conference -Timing -Publicity
Killing of policemen in New York and Washington, D.C. -Support of police
-Staff -Negroes
-Policeman [Waverly Jones] -Funeral, May 25, 1971
-Seale -Mood of country
-John A. Scali -Moore -Mitchell -Civil rights
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-Plot Max M. Fisher and Rabbi [Forename unknown] Schecter
-Request to see President
-Plight of USSR Jewry -Telegram -Nature of issue -State Department
-President’s comments on January 11, 1971 -Political issue
-Patrick J. Buchanan
Kissinger’s forthcoming talk at Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW] -Foreign policy -Vietnam
-President’s comments at briefing for Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
-USSR -PRC
Schedule
-Press conference -Timing
-Vietnam -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Trip -Announcement
Letter to President from Indira Gandhi
-India -Military action
-Pakistan -Yahya Khan
-Indians -Ambassador -Yahya Khan -Refugees
-East Pakistan ******************************************************************************
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Letter to President from Indira Gandhi -Indians -Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan -Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion
-Famine -War -Henry A. Kissinger’s comments on aggressiveness
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Book on foreign policy
-Henry Brandon -SALT
Press view of President
-Domestic policy -Foreign policy
-Vietnam -Polls
-Public opinion -Thieu
-John F. Kennedy -Lyndon B. Johnson
-Trust -Laos
-Cambodia -Explanation
-Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. -Casualties
-PRC -USSR
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-Middle East -Cuba
-Domestic situation -Economy
Vietnam
-President's meeting with Senators -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Abrams -Possibility of peace
-Ceasefire -Announcement
-South Vietnamese -Election
-Public disbelief -Gallup poll -Press
-Establishment
-Congressional action -News summary -Vote on draft
-Gaylord Nelson amendment
-John V. Tunney -Tunney amendment
-Edward M. Kennedy -Polls
-Results -Effect of Laos
-Press -Problems
-Public understanding -Rogers -Melvin R. Laird
-News blackout
-Abrams -Cambodia
-Nature of war -Italians
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-US Civil War -Responsibility
-Laird
-Robert F. Froehlke ******************************************************************************
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[505-004-w013] [Duration: 9s] Vietnam
-Polls -[First name unknown] Henderson -Performance -Court martial
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Vietnam -Polls
-Abrams -Gen. William C. Westmoreland [?]
-Laird -Public views
-SALT -PRC
-Patriotism -Newspaper columns -Television
-Press
-[Arnold] Eric Sevareid -John W. Chancellor -Effect of pictures
-Vietnam war
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-Casualties -Laos
-Casualties
-Tchepone -Vietnam
-Negotiations -Green Bay Packers
-Comparison -President’s comments at briefing for Southern Regional Media, May 25, 1971
-Uncertainties -Vietnam
-USSR -PRC -Middle East -Berlin
-Cuba -Vietnam
-Possible peace settlement -Thieu
-Forthcoming election -Saigon
Race relations
-Blacks -Vernon C. Coffey
House of Representatives
-Camp Pendleton -Lease
-Committee -Review
California political situation
-F. Edward Hébert
Summit with USSR
PRC -United Nations [UN]
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-Rogers -President's meeting with Kissinger and Rogers -UN decision
-Two China policy -Perceived cynicism -Detente -Taiwan
-Right-wingers -Kissinger's meeting with Rogers, May 25, 1971 -President's forthcoming meeting with Kissinger and Rogers
-President’s forthcoming meeting with Councils of the Arts
-Laird -National Security Council [NSC] -Poll
-UN
-Consultations -Britain
-Proposed meeting -Harold Lee
-Kissinger's schedule -Meeting
-Rogers -President's forthcoming call
-Golf -PRC -Press conference
-Timing
-Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions [MBFR]
Vietnam -Kissinger's schedule
-Trip to Paris -Timing -Unknown Man -French
-Rogers’ concern -North Vietnamese -Jean Sainteny -Kissinger's trip to England
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-Cover for trips -Rogers -Sainteny
-Ho Chi Minh -Haldeman’s view -Rogers -SALT
-Kissinger The President left at an unknown time after 10:03 am.
-PRC trip -Rogers -Private trip -Publicity
-Rogers -Lack of knowledge -Suspicion
-London
-Sainteny -Cover
-Rogers’ forthcoming trip to Paris -Sainteny
-Elliot L. Richardson -SALT
The President returned at an unknown time before 11:07 am.
-Middle East -Rogers
-Cover for forthcoming trip -Informing Rogers
-Rogers’ forthcoming trip -Possible story
-Gen. James D. ("Don") Hughes -Military plane
-Friends -England
-Paris -Sainteny
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Council of the Arts
-Nancy Hanks
[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 10:08 am and 11:07 am]
[Conversation No. 505-4A] [See Conversation No. 3-126]
[End of telephone conversation]
President's meeting with Kissinger and Rogers -PRC
President's schedule
-Golf
The President talked with Rogers between 11:07 am and 11:11 am ******************************************************************************
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[505-004-w014] [Duration: 9s] [Conversation No. 505-4B]
[See Conversation No. 003-127] ******************************************************************************
[End of telephone conversation]
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SALT -Announcement of agreement, May 20, 1971
Foreign policy -Rogers -Public understanding
-Intellectual elite
-USSR -PRC -Peace
Vietnam -Casualties
-Figures
President's visit to Birmingham, Alabama -Bands
-Number -Reserve Officer Training Corps [ROTC]
-Schools bands -Certificate of appreciation -Advance men
Rose Mary Woods entered at 11:13 am. Kissinger left at 11:14 am.
Xerox copy -Typing
Jewish vote
-Kissinger’s view
Typewriter -International Business Machines [IBM]
-Size -Type
Jews in USSR
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-Possible meeting with the President -Fisher -Paul W. McCracken
-Rabbi Schecter -Fisher
Woods left at 11:23 am.
[No conversation]
President's schedule
-Mitchell's meeting with Richardson -Mayflower Hotel -Drug abuse
-Foundation
-Jack E. (“Jack”) Ingersoll -President's appearance
-Publicity -Drugs
-John D. Ehrlichman -Publicity
-Maine -Jack J. Dreyfuss, Jr.
-Hughes -Security check
-President's possible visit -Weather
-Mitchell’s and Richardson’s meeting -Mayflower Hotel
-News summary -Leonard Garment
-Briefing -Hanks
President's schedule
-Forthcoming address to Council of the Arts -Mayflower Hotel -News summary -Garment
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-Hanks -Political issue -Coverage
-Arts -Public television
-Peter M. Flanigan -Frank Pace
-Robert [unintelligible surname]
President’s trip -News summary
-Birmingham, Alabama -Coverage -George C. Wallace -Other trips
-Midwest -Small towns
-Mobile -Chicago and suburbs
-Southern Regional media meeting -Midwest and South -Herbert G. Klein
-American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
President's schedule
-Harry S. Dent -Meeting with Haldeman
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 11:23 am.
President’s schedule
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:35 am.
-Advance men
-Authority -Haldeman -Approved list
-Jim Martin
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-Dent -Additions -Dent
-Cancellations -State chairman -Dent -State chairman
President's trip -Staff response
-William E. Timmons -Coverage
-Alabama -Coverage -Crowds -News summary
-Coverage -Frank Cormier
-Demonstrators -Dan Rather
-Coverage -Signs -Ronald L. Ziegler -Strategy
The President and Haldeman left at 11:35 am.
Conversation No. 505-005
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: 12:13 pm - 12:20 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
Luncheon
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-Working lunch for Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud [Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia], May 27, 1971
-Number of guests
-Program -Seating in the State Dining Room -Number -John B. Connally
-Spiro T. Agnew -Number -Announcement
-Blue Room
-Refreshments -Entertainment -State Dining Room -Press
-Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins -President's toast
-Response by King Faisal -Interpreter
-Interpreter -Refreshments -Food -Refreshments
-Clark MacGregor -Number -Working lunch
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Luncheon -Working lunch -Congressional attendees
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Luncheon
-Conservatives -MacGregor
-Oil people -Nelson A. Rockefeller
-Receiving line -Alternative
-Duration Butterfield left at 12:20 pm.
Conversation No. 505-006
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: Unknown between 12:20 pm and 12:43 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman. **********************************************************************
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[505-006-w002] [Duration: 9s]
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[National Security] [505-006-w001] [Duration: 44s]
Working lunch with Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud -Henry A. Kissinger -The President’s opinion -The President’s view on lunch
-H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Political views of attendees -Jews -Antisemitism
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Briefings for President -John R. Price, Jr. -Council of the Arts -Birmingham
-Southern Regional Media -Mobile -Materials
-Value
-Price -Need for editor -Background
-White House staff
-John D. Ehrlichman -Domestic Council -Research staff
-Information
-Staff size -Paperwork -Need for editor, manager -Political information
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-Mayors -High school bands
-Time and space limits
-Points to cover -Need to condense
-Ehrlichman -Revenue sharing
-President's time -Trip to Alabama
-Advance work -Quality
-Governors -Bands -Dwight L. Chapin
-Motorcade stops
-Birmingham -Crowd size
-Advisor in car -Birmingham
-Length -Police -Crowds -Photograph
-Crowds -Location -Mexico
-Police
-Barricades Ronald L. Ziegler entered at 12:28 pm.
Press conference -Announcement
-Time -Day
Albert Watson
-Edward M. Kennedy -Possible appointment to Court of Military Appeals
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-Confirmation -Blacks
-Armed services
-Lt. William L. Calley, Jr. -Richard B. Russell's assistant
-Court -John Russell
-James F. Byrnes -Black
-Appointment -Watson
-Handling of announcement -Instructions for Ziegler’s forthcoming press conference
-Lack of decision -Possible Interstate Commerce Commission [ICC] appointment
-Gerald R. Ford -Watson -ICC
-Donald L. Jackson
Ziegler left at 12:31 pm.
ICC
-Roman L. Hruska -Harry S. Dent
Trips
-Motorcade stops -President's location
-Car -Crowd
-Photographs -Position of crowds
Press conference
-Podium -Use
-Signing ceremonies -Citation
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-State arrivals Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 12:31 pm.
David K.E. Bruce
-Arrival
Bull left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.
-Appearance -Press conference
-Microphone -Notes -Posture
-Hands
-Camera -American Society of Newspaper Editors [ASNE]
Trips
-Motorcade -Advance man -Crowds -President's location
-Car -Directions on hand shaking
-Microphones -Appearance
-Dignity -Airport crowds
-Car -Use
-President's stops -Reasons -Birmingham
Program attendees -Bertram S. Brown
-Marijuana -Question of legalization
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-President’s participation
Portraits of the President
-Charlie Daniels’ brother -Request
-Reply -Time
-Vice Presidential busts -Lyndon B. Johnson
-Johnson Library -The President
-Possible remaking -Agnew -The President
-Time done
-Sculpting from photograph -Agnew -Requests -President's time
-Look photography -Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins
-Camera angles -News photos
-Face -Atkins
Television appearances
-[Dwight] David, II and Julie Nixon Eisenhower -Constance M. Stuart -President's decision -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-White House assistant -Photos -Unknown photo
-Girl
-Ziegler -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo -Coverage
-Photograph
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Haldeman left at an unknown time before 12:43 pm.
Conversation No. 505-007
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: 12:43 pm - 1:17 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with David K.E. Bruce and Henry A. Kissinger; the White House photographer and members of the press were present at the beginning of the meeting.
Greetings
Bruce's schedule
Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud luncheon, May 27, 1971 -Time -Bruce's attendance -Number in attendance
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[Duration: 14s] Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud luncheon, May 27, 1971 -The President’s opinion
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[Camera noise] Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud luncheon, May 27, 1971
-Menu *********************************************************************
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[505-007-w006] [Duration: 10s] Malik Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud luncheon, May 27, 1971
-Menu -No pork *********************************************************************
Meeting between Bruce and Kissinger -Lunch
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Progress -Delay
-Appearance -President's meetings -Bruce's resignation
-Postponement
Manolo Sanchez [?] entered at an unknown time after 12:43 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez [?] left at an unknown time before 1:17 pm.
-Kissinger conference with Bruce
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Vietnam negotiations
-Possible progress
-Timing -Bruce’s resignation -Negotiation process
-Accomplishment
-Stalemate **********************************************************************
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[505-007-w008] [Duration: 27s] Vietnam negotiations
-David K. E. Bruce's appointment -Negotiation process -The President’s position -Destruction as a topic
-Frustration **********************************************************************
Bruce's resignation
-Possible departure from Paris -Unknown person
-Jean Monnet -Bruce’s health -Age -Residence
-Vacation -Bruce's health
-British -Timing
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-Spain -Mediterranean -Bruce's health
Vietnam negotiations
-Future -Prisoners of War [POWs]
-North Vietnamese -Possible progress
-Timing -Bruce's resignation
-Timing -Paris talks -US negotiations
-Rank
-Bruce's future -POWs
-Families -Future forum
-Bruce's possible appointment -Consultant to the President -Bruce’s experience -State Department
-Bruce’s view of status -Goals
-Terminal date -Settlement
-Ceasefire -Troop withdrawal -Ceasefire -US troops
-North Vietnamese -Bruce's schedule -W. Averell Harriman -State Department
-Llewellyn E. (“Tommy”) Thompson, Jr. -Resignation
-Date -Kissinger
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People's Republic of China [PRC] trip
-Kissinger’s forthcoming discussion with Bruce
-President’s conversation with Kissinger -US table tennis team
-Visit to PRC -Trade and travel
-Presidential candidate -Cabinet -Maurice H. Stans -Edward M. Kennedy
-Edmund S. Muskie -Kissinger’s Harvard University colleague
-PRC -President’s plans
-Bruce’s position -PRC
-Compared with USSR -President's talk with Kissinger
-Candidates for possible trip to PRC -Bruce
-South Vietnamese -End of war
-Timing -US-PRC relationship
-Bruce’s view
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People's Republic of China [PRC] trip -Japanese and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
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People's Republic of China [PRC] trip -Jean Sainteny
-PRC -Negotiating posture
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[Duration: 7s] People's Republic of China [PRC] trip -Jean Sainteny’s opinion of negotiating strategy
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People's Republic of China [PRC] trip -Jean Sainteny -PRC -Negotiating posture
-Bruce -Japanese
-Compared with Chinese -Chinese
-Japanese -PRC
-Attitudes toward others -World
-USSR -Japanese -USSR -Indians
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-Bruce -Lunch
-PRC
-Bruce's health **********************************************************************
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Bruce and Kissinger left at 1:17 pm.
Conversation No. 505-008
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: 1:25 pm - 1:26 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with Alexander P. Butterfield.
President’s schedule
Telephone call
President's schedule
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-Executive Office Building [EOB] -Edward J. Kiernan call
Butterfield left at 1:26 pm.
Conversation No. 505-009
Date: May 26, 1971
Time: Unknown between 1:26 pm and 1:30 pm Location: Oval Office The President talked with the White House operator.
[See Conversation No. 3-128]
Conversation No. 505-010
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:22 pm until 1:37 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with Rose Mary Woods.
Letter -Proofreading
-William P. Rogers -Delivery -Maggie Russell
The President’s schedule -Possible visits
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Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo -Eugene Warner -Lunch with Rose Mary Woods and Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo
-Letter to Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo -Sultan ibn Abd al-Aziz -Requests a visit in September 1971 -Melvin R. Laird
-Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia -James D. (“Don”) Hughes -Henry A. Kissinger -Considerations
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The President’s schedule -Possible visits
-Claude Pepper -Archbishop
-Harry S. Dent -Rebozo
Hobart D. (“Hobe”) Lewis
-Letter to Woods -Book on Thomas Jefferson -Proposed book
-President's views on Jefferson, [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, and
Theodore Roosevelt -Knopf -Timing -Raymond K. Price, Jr.
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-Woods’ talk with Price
Letter
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] delegation
Book presentations
-John B. Connally -Frame -Costs -Speaker of the House
-Connally
Presidential libraries -Lyndon B. Johnson
-Dedication speech -Date -Press -Cost
-John F. Kennedy -Johnson -Dwight D. Eisenhower -Harry S. Truman
-Franklin D. Roosevelt -Use of money
-Analogy to lighting White House -Size
-President's papers -Commitment -Left-wing scholars -Vice presidential papers
-Edward L. Morgan -Gift of papers
-Taxes -Vice presidential papers
Police funeral
-Effect -Stock market
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-New York City -John V. Lindsay -Police brutality
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[Duration: 3m 51s] Dinner, May 25, 1971 -Waldorf Astoria Ballroom
-Honoring Edward [surname unknown] -H. Ross Perot's attendance -Depression -[First name unknown] Whitney
-Prison An event -The President's letter
-Response -Spiro T. Agnew -Response -Agnew family
-Rose Mary Woods -John Coleman -Response -George Champion, Jr.
-Unknown woman -Sisters in attendance -Rose Mary Woods’s comments -The President’s opinion
-Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo’s comments -Charles G. (“Bebe”) Rebozo -Tribute to Sue [?] [surname unknown] -Unknown woman
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-Rose Mary Woods’s comments -Previous appearance -Psychiatrist
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[The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:26 pm and 1:37 pm] [Conversation No. 505-10A]
[See Conversation No. 3-129] [End of telephone conversation]
Woods left at 1:37 pm.
Conversation No. 505-011
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:37 pm and 1:41 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with Stephen B. Bull.
President’s schedule -Meeting with Charles W. Colson
Bull left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm.
Conversation No. 505-012
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Date: May 26, 1971 Time: Unknown between 1:37 pm and 1:41 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with an unknown man.
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Request -Coffee **********************************************************************
The unknown man left at an unknown time before 1:41 pm.
Conversation No. 505-013
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: 1:41 pm - 2:02 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with Charles W. Colson.
Killing of policeman in New York
-President’s view -White House staff inaction
-Contacting widows -Washington, DC police shooting
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-Race -White House response
-Colson's response
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] involvement -Public action -Justice Department -Colson's response
-Funeral -President's call to Edward J. Kiernan
-Leak to New York Daily News -Exploitation of issue
-Justice Department -Richard S. Schweiker -Richard A. Moore -Justice Department
-Possible conspiracy -Justice Department
-Call to John W. Dean, III -Legal basis
-Revolutionary conspiracy -Smith Act
-Need for action -J. Edgar Hoover
-Public opinion **********************************************************************
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[505-013-w001] [Duration: 37s] Heidi Ann (Fletcher) Heins
-The President’s opinion -Similarity to father Thomas W. Fletcher, Jr. -Charles W. Colson’s opinion
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Killing of policeman in New York -Need for legislation -Justice Department
-Bureaucracy
-Dean -Smith Act
-FBI involvement -Richard G. Kleindienst
-Justice Department -Constitutional rights
-President's announcement -Bombing, 1970
-Nixon bill on shooting policemen -Blacks
-Black Panthers -Black policeman
-Support for President -Social issue
-Race and crime -Concern over incidents in community
-Interviews in Harlem -Possible visit to President -Schweiker's bill -Ronald L. Ziegler
-Press conference -Publicity from phone calls and letters -National fund for children
-Scholarships
-Moore -President’s position -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Position
-Washington, D.C. police -James J. Kilpatrick, Jr. column
-Mailing -Edmund S. Muskie
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-Demonstrators -(Madame) Nguyen Thi Binh -Hanoi
Congress
-Amendments -Draft
-Edward W. Brooke -Robert P. Griffin -Howard H. Baker, Jr. -Peace issue
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] -J. William Fulbright quote
-William S. White -Support
-Democratic presidential candidates -Hubert H. Humphrey -George S. McGovern -Muskie
-Antiballistic Missiles [ABM] -Fulbright
-White -Quote
-ABM -Vote
-Draft -Possible political impact
-Doves -President's statement on SALT, May 20, 1971 -Henry A. Kissinger
-Colson's talk
-White -Joseph C. Kraft
-Colson's note to H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman -Article on ABM
-Democrats -Unknown person’s column -Washington Post -Democrats
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-ABM vote -Disarmament
-Arms control
-Colson's meeting with Brooke -Possible foreign policy speech by Brooke -Brook’s position on ABM -National Security Council [NSC]
-Vote -Timing -House -Senate
-SALT negotiations -Public attention
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1972 campaign -Harris poll -Edmund S. Muskie and the President -Percentages
-Gallup poll and White House polls -Previous March–April poll -George C. Wallace -President's gains
-Differences between polls -Gallup poll -Harris poll -Methods of sampling
-Gallup poll compared to Harris poll -Negro vote -Poor vote -The President's gains
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-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT] -“Man of Peace” -Vietnam
-Laos -Economy -Public attitudes -Louis Harris
-Tendency to be negative -The President’s opinion -Charles W. Colson’s comment -The President's Harris poll showing in 1968
-Committed to the President’s reelection -Hawkishness -Charles W. Colson’s comment on sexuality -Joseph W. Alsop
-Isolationism -Democrats -Edmund S. Muskie -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy
-Catholic vote -Edward M. (“Ted”) Kennedy and Edmund S. Muskie -Polling -Eugene J. McCarthy
-Possible candidacy -New York -Issues -Speech in Minnesota
-Hubert H. Humphrey -Edmund S. Muskie -Vietnam -Negotiation
-Southerners -The President’s opinion -Flags -God Bless You
-Midwest -Harris poll trial heat -The President’s showing -Hubert H. Humphrey
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-South -West -Gallup poll
-Gallup poll -West -Approval rating down -Harris poll
-South -West -Economics -California
-Population compared to the rest of the west -Issues -People's Republic of China [PRC] -Republicans
-Positive feeling -George C. Wallace **********************************************************************
Colson left at 2:02 pm.
Conversation No. 505-014
Date: May 26, 1971 Time: 5:17 pm - 5:57 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with Harold Lee.
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Unknown mutual friends -Dinner -Previous encounter
-The President’s opinion -Jewish Refreshments
-Coffee -Tea Thelma C. (Ryan) (“Pat”) Nixon
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Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.
President's schedule -Henry A. Kissinger
-Ronald L. Ziegler -Meeting with the Attorney General
-Length -John D. Ehrlichman
Bull left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.
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Kissinger -Joint meeting
Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:17 pm.
Refreshments
Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:22 pm.
Vietnam
-End of war -US withdrawal
-South Vietnamese -Writers
-Robert Downey[?] -Press
-North Vietnamese military activity
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -Mutual mistrust
-President's Experience -Detente -Arms control announcement, May 20, 1971
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
Kissinger entered at 5:22 pm.
Introductions
Vietnam
Joseph W. Alsop
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-Kissinger's forthcoming meeting -Unknown woman
US-USSR relations -Alsop’s view -Mutual mistrust -SALT
-Alsop Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 5:22 pm.
Refreshments Sanchez left at an unknown time before 5:57 pm.
-Kissinger’s analysis -Initial response to the President -People's Republic of China [PRC]
-Political rivalry
-Ideological leadership of Communist Party -Federal Republic of Germany [FRG] -Middle East
-USSR missile build up
-Jordan -Syria
-Cuban Base -Ideology
-PRC -FRG
-Domestic situation -Berlin
-Middle East -Risk of war
-FRG -Eastern Europe
-Poland -Improvement -President's message
-January 8, 1971
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-Detente -Possible effect on western unity
-US-PRC relations
-Lee -US policy
-Ping Pong team -Travel and trade
-Taiwan -British -United Nations [UN] -Mao Tse Tung
-Chou En-lai -Cambodia
-PRC -Laos
-Alsop -PRC and USSR
-Conciliation
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US–Union of Soviet Socialist Republics {USSR] relations -People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Hong Kong
-Harold Lee -Economic problems -Army -Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion
-Harold Lee’s trip with Spiro T. Agnew -Chou En-lai -1958 -Harold Lee speculation
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-Economic and political respectability -Treaties -Mao Tse-tung’s death
-Recommendation for the President -Regionalism -Ho Chi Minh -North Vietnam
-Mao Tse-tung -North Vietnam -Henry A. Kissinger’s assessment -Party bureaucracy
-Mao Tse-tung -American people -Product of capitalists -Chou En-lai
-Possible paths forward -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -India -Taiwan
-Hong Kong -Thailand -Mainland -Chinese people
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Overseas Chinese -Southeast Asia
-Singapore -Lee Kuan Yew
US foreign policy
-PRC and USSR -American people
-Idealism -Korea
-Pragmatic -Idealists
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-Press -USSR
-Unilateral disarmament
-Reaction to pragmatism -Fear of war
-Reaction to signs of progress -”Millennium”
-USSR and PRC -World Situation
-PRC -USSR
-Pragmatic leaders -US policy
-Pragmatism -Interest
-USSR and PRC -Evenhandedness
Japan
-Future in world situation -Achievements
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People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Peking -Mainland
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -Negotiations -Resolution
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Europe -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
People’s Republic of China [PRC] -Southeast Asia -Reasons against intervention -Harold Lee’s opinion
-Peking -Korea -Proximity to main centers of industry -Communists
Japanese -Feelings toward -Achievements
-Winter Olympics -1972 People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Chou-En-lai -Communists -Propaganda
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Korea
-Kissinger trip -Agnew
Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Lee's children -Cuff links
-Tie clasps -Paper weight
[General conversation]
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-Golf -Chinese food
-Walter H. Annenberg -Tricia Nixon and Edward R.F. Cox
-Wedding date
Lee and Kissinger left at 5:57 pm.
Conversation No. 505-015
Date: May 28, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:47 am and 9:08 am Location: Oval Office The President dictated a memorandum.
Dictation
-H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman
Haldeman [?] entered at an unknown time before 9:08 am.
Conversation No. 505-016
Date: May 28, 1971
Time: Unknown between 8:47 am and 9:08 am Location: Oval Office The President met with an unknown person.
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The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:08 am.
Conversation No. 505-017
Date: May 28, 1971
Time: 9:08 am - 9:12 am Location: Oval Office The President talked with William P. Rogers.
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[Duration: 19s] [See Conversation No. 003-166; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation]
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Conversation No. 505-018
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Date: May 28, 1971 Time: Unknown between 9:12 am and 11:04 am
Location: Oval Office The President met with H.R. (“Bob”) Haldeman.
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Primaries -John N. Mitchell -Robert A. Taft, Jr.
-Ohio -New Hampshire -Robert A. Taft, Jr. -Move to lock up Ohio
-Talk with John N. Mitchell -Ray C. Bliss -Ohio -New Hampshire
-Stand-ins -Delegates -California -Ronald W. Reagan
-Oregon -Florida -Nebraska
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[The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 9:12 am and 9:16 am]
[Conversation No. 505-18A] [See Conversation No. 3-167]
[End of telephone conversation] **********************************************************************
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[505-018-w002] [Duration: 2m 16s] Julie Nixon Eisenhower’s speech
-Teaching job -Publicity -National Education Association [NEA] types -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Salary -Teacher -The President’s opinion -School district's statement
-Security basis -United States Secret Service [USSS] -Publicity -Charles W. Colson
-Democratic County Chairman ***********************************************************************
The White House operator talked with the President at 9:16 am. [Conversation No. 505-18B]
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[See Conversation No. 3-168]
[End of telephone conversation]
Wiretapping and surveillance -Use
-Edward M. Kennedy -Compared with hiring researchers -Edmund S. Muskie -Kennedy
-Coverage -Chapman’s friend
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:16 am.
Refreshments
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 9:34 am.
Wiretapping and surveillance
-1962 experience -F. Donald Nixon
-President's house -Charles W. Colson -John J. ("Jack") Caulfield -Kennedy
-Muskie -Hubert H. Humphrey -Purpose
-Scandal
-Clark R. Mollenhoff
Press conference -Timing
-June 1, 1971 -President's schedule
President's schedule
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-Memorial Day -Camp David -Tomb of unknown soldier
Gallup Poll
-David R. Derge -Unknown question
-Partisan line
Public relations -Goals
-Slogans -Richard A. Moore -William L. Safire -Cliff Miller
-Relations with Moore and John A. Scali -Ronald L. Ziegler -Colson
-Democrats
-New Deal -Fair Deal -Great Society -New Frontier
-Republicans -Open Door -Generation of Peace, Revolution
-Importance
-John D. Ehrlichman -Political
Leon Panetta
-Book -Robert Finch
-Difficulties -Office of Emergency Preparedness [OEP]
Richard V. (“Dick”) Allen
Patrick J. Buchanan
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-Forthcoming talk with Haldeman -Conservative
-Jeffry Bull
-Talk with Kevin P. Phillips **********************************************************************
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[505-018-w003] [Duration: 1m 58s] Conservatives
-Congress -Columnists -The President’s opinion -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey
-Ronald W. Reagan -Possible effect on the President in Republican Party -Spiro T. Agnew -Ability to hold off Ronald W. Reagan
-South -Martin C. (“Marty”) Anderson -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman's talk with Patrick J. Buchanan -Position
-Possible consultant role -Increased visibility -Column -John N. Mitchell
-Strategy **********************************************************************
[The President talked with J. Edgar Hoover between 9:34 am and 9:43 am] [Conversation No. 505-18C]
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[See Conversation No. 3-169]
[End of telephone conversation]
Hoover -Understanding of publicity
Ronald L. Ziegler entered at an unknown time after 9:43 am.
Announcement of forthcoming press conference
-Timing -June 1, 1971
-Ziegler's talk with William H. Carruthers and Mark I. Goode -Time of day
-Audience -Ratings -Network suggestion
[The President talked with John D. Ehrlichman between 9:45 am and 9:49 am] [Conversation No. 505-18D]
[See Conversation No. 3-170] [End of telephone conversation]
Drugs -Administration awareness of problem -Veterans -Finch and Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Report -Hippies
-Travel
Henry A. Kissinger entered at an unknown time after 9:49 am. **********************************************************************
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Drugs -India -Chester Bowles -House in India
-Unknown woman -Filth -Hippies -Junkies
-The President’s assessment as ambassador **********************************************************************
Press conference
Drugs
-Veterans -Program
-Youth -Location
-Veterans -Upper middle class -William B. Saxbe -Congressmen
-Upper middle class
Vietnam -Harvard professors
-Children -Percentage serving and killed
-Saxbe -Congressmen
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-Wounded in Vietnam -[Dwight] David Eisenhower, II
-Navy
-Military service -Yale University commencement speaker
-1970 comments -William F. Buckley's research
-Number killed Ziegler left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR] -Kissinger's talk with Anatoliy F. Dobrynin -Gerard C. Smith
-Cable
-Vladimir F. Semenov -[Forename unknown] Gardiner [sp?]
-Change in USSR statement -Dobrynin
-Talk with the President -Gardiner -Unhappiness of USSR delegation
-USSR establishment
-Leonid I. Brezhnev -Kissinger's call to Dobrynin -Dobrynin's call to Kissinger
-Instructions
-Smith -Statement
Vietnam
-Xuan Thuy -Proposal
-Ceasefire deadline
Kissinger’s schedule
President's schedule -Luis A. Ferré
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-William D. Mills [?] -President's forthcoming meeting
-Presentation
-Pictures William P. Rogers -President's conversation of May 28, 1971
-Leak -Anwar el-Sadat -Leak
-Marshall Green
-Rogers ******************************************************************************
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-President's conversation of May 28, 1971 -Melvin R. Laird -The President’s lack of trust
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-President’s conversation of May 28, 1971 -Melvin R. Laird
-Green -Leak
-Reason -People's Republic of China [PRC]
PRC
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-Polls -Forthcoming poll -Louis P. Harris poll
-Wording -Admission into United Nations [UN] -Dual representation
-PRC and Taiwan, Republic of China
-Population -Charles W. Colson and Harris
-Flyer -Relations with PRC
-Questions [The President spoke with an unknown person at an unknown time between 9:49 am and 10:06 am.]
[Conversation No. 505-18E]
-Harris poll
-Delivery to the President [End of telephone conversation]
-Negotiations -Timing
Vietnam
-Xuan Thuy -US position
An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 9:49 am.
The unknown person left at an unknown time before 10:06 am.
-Negotiations
-US position -Timing -US position
-Political settlement
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-Nguyen Van Thieu -Meeting with the President
-Timing
-North Vietnamese response -Timing
-Possible South Vietnamese position -Tone
-Norodom Sihanouk -David K.E. Bruce -Ellsworth F. Bunker -Cambodia
-Settlement
PRC -Harris poll
-Size -Question on admission of PRC to United Nations -Difference between 1968 and 1971 polls -Timing of 1971 poll
-Diplomatic recognition -Ambassador
-Two China policy -1968 compared with 1971 polls
-Harris poll compared with White House polls -Wording of questions
-Geographic breakdown -Midwest
-South -Age groups -Voters
-Hubert H. Humphrey
-The President -George C. Wallace
-White House poll -PRC
-Initiative -Communists -Table tennis team
-Visit
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-US recognition -Importance of communication
-Publication
-State Department -Timing -Release
-UN vote
-Two China policy -US position -Public opinion
Haldeman left at 10:06 am. Mills entered at 10:07 am.
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William O. Mills -Congratulations by the President -Howard H. Baker, Jr.
-Ronald L. Ziegler [?] -Votes -Support for the President -Issues
-Welfare -Economy -District -Support for the President
-A rally -Salisbury, Maryland -Spiro T. Agnew
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Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 10:07 am [General conversation]
[Photo session] Members of the press left at an unknown time before 10:20 am
Presentation of gifts by the President -Cuff links -Golf balls
-Gift for secretary **********************************************************************
Mills left at 10:20 am.
Polls on PRC
-International interests -Domestic interests -Effect on domestic situation -Harry S. Dent
-Gallup -Results
-PRC compared with Vietnam -Effect on US policy
Foreign trips
-Two China policy -Delay
-USSR response to summit proposal -Timing
-Release of poll -Timing
-US policy -Delay -Rogers
-Consultation with allies
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-Domestic considerations -Peking trip
-Timing of announcement
-Summit with USSR -Dobrynin
-Peking trip -Announcement
-Timing -1972 Elections -Democratic Convention -Lyndon B. Johnson
-1968 bombing pause -Completion of foreign policy initiatives
-Date -USSR Summit
-PRC Summit -Timing
-1972 Election -Democrats
-Harvard Professor -PRC -Trips to Peking
-Opposition leaders
-USSR Summit -Announcement -Dobrynin -Deadline
-Time restrictions -China card
Haldeman entered at an unknown time after 10:20 am
-PRC
-Timing of reply -Peking trip
-Trip by the President -Trip by Kissinger
-President's trip to Peking -Timing
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-Kissinger's secret trip -Alexander M. Haig, Jr. -Schedule
-Arrangements -Jean Sainteny
-Bruce -Kissinger's talk
-Support of the President -Dean G. Acheson -Attendance on trip -Negotiations
-Unknown person -Possible call -State Department -Rogers
-Negotiations -Prisoners of War [POWs]
-Foreign Service -Walter P. McConaughy
-Taiwan -[David] Kenneth Rush
-Berlin
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Foreign trips -Egon Bahr -A leak
-Willy Brandt -Dinner -Henry A. Kissinger -Personal intervention
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President’s leadership
-Foreign policy -Clark MacGregor
-Comments at staff meeting -PRC and USSR -Senate and foreign policy
-J. William Fulbright
-State Department -Totalitarianism -Rogers -John Foster Dulles
-Dwight D. Eisenhower -Rogers -North Vietnam, PRC, USSR -PRC
-Foreign minister -Chou En-lai -Yeh Chien-ying
-Rogers
-Andrei A. Gromyko -Press -Manner -Brezhnev
-Politburo -MacGregor -Votes -William B. Saxbe
-John Sherman Cooper -Kissinger's attendance at dinner at Marquis Childs’ home
-Kennedy Center -Statement on Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., amendment
-Apology -Childs
-Article -Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty [SALT]
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-Public -MacGregor
-Michael J. (“Mike”) Mansfield
Henry A. Kissinger's meeting with Dobrynin
-Semenov -Hotline Agreement
-SALT
Public opinion on foreign initiatives -President's conversation on Air Force One
-Lyndon B. Johnson Library -Presidential initiatives
-Senate -Mutuality
Kissinger’s relationship with Dobrynin
-Kennedy Center -Dobrynin
-Llewellyn E. ("Tommy") Thompson, Jr. -Summit
Rogers
-Compared with Elliot L. Richardson -State Department
Announcement on PRC policy
-Rogers -Domestic considerations -USSR -Initiative
-Summit -Forthcoming press conference, June 1, 1971
-Response to possible questions -Consultations with allies
-President's credibility -Press -Compared with Lyndon B. Johnson
-Budget
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-Public opinion -Polls
-Press
-Kissinger's dinner parties -John W. Chancellor -Laotian operation
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Announcement on People’s Republic of China [PRC] policy -The President’s credibility -Trip to Alabama
-George C. Wallace -The President’s belief regarding support for George C. Wallace Polls
-White House -States -Indiana -The President vs. Birch E. Bayh, Jr.
-Alabama -The President vs. George C. Wallace **********************************************************************
Foreign policy -R. Sargent Shriver comment
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[505-018-w016] [Duration: 4s] Foreign policy
-R. Sargent Shriver comment -H. R. (“Bob”) Haldeman’s opinion -Henry A. Kissinger’s opinion
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Foreign policy
-Democratic administrations -PRC -Test Ban Treaty
-USSR
-US interest -Edward Teller -President’s support -USSR interest
-Disarmament -Cuban missile crisis -Berlin Wall -Laos
-Death of Ngo Dinh Diem -Nixon administration
-Vietnam War -USSR
-PRC -Humphrey
-Moratorium on Antiballistic Missile's [ABMs] -Multiple Independently-Targetable Reentry Vehicle's [MIRVs]
-Administration policy -Press play -Political issue -Administration
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Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle
-President's telephone calls, May 27, 1971
-O’Boyle -James Cardinal McIntyre
-Support for the President -Vietnam War
-Washington Post -Church -George Meany
Vietnam -Meany -President's policy
-Senators
-Demonstrators -Press
-Frank F. Mankiewicz
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Vietnam -The President's policy -Press
-Frank F. Mankiewicz -Joining George S. McGovern’s staff -Foreign vs. domestic policy -Democrats
-Domestic policy stances -Henry M. (“Scoop”) Jackson -Spending -Social programs
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Vietnam negotiations
-Memorandum by John A. Scali -Kissinger
-Peace -Combat role and peace offer
-Timing -Thieu
-North Vietnamese answer -Midway meeting with Thieu
-Press -Announcement
-Troop withdrawals -Thieu -Rogers -Laird
-Thieu -Combat role of Army of the Republic of Vietnam [ARVN]
-Timing -Press
-Military withdrawals -Timing
-Thieu -US combat role
-North Vietnamese -Peace offer
-Meetings -Possible delay
-Possible consequences -Thieu meeting
-Timing
Vietnam -Press
-American Broadcasting Company [ABC] -Casualties
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-Colson -Compared with earlier figures
-Drug problem
-Casualty figures
Press treatment of administration -Report on consumer price index [CPI]
-Price rise -Importance of administration achievements
-Publicity
Berlin -Publicity -A leak -Summit with USSR
-Timing -Egon Bahr
-Invitation to January 1971 moon launch -Kissinger
-Rush -SALT
-Crisis -US credit
-World peace -Middle East -Vietnam
-Risk
-PRC and USSR -Middle East -Berlin
-USSR
-Berlin -Egypt
-US negotiations with USSR -USSR concessions
-Document -Wording
-Access -German Democratic Republic [GDR]
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-Harry S. Truman -Franklin D. Roosevelt
-Kissinger's call to Dobrynin
-Meeting with Rogers -Gromyko
-Summit
The President's draft -Forthcoming remarks at US Military Academy at West Point, New York, May 29,
1971 -John K. Andrews, Jr.
-Outline
Arts Council -President's remarks
-Press coverage -President's memorandum
-Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon -Press coverage
-Mamie G.D. Eisenhower -Claudia A. (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
-Reception -Press quote of Mrs. Nixon
President's speech at West Point
-Kissinger's review
Kissinger left at an unknown time before 10:25 am.
Mrs. Nixon -Press coverage
Kissinger's acquaintances
President's forthcoming trip to West Point
-Ceremonies -Parade field -Mrs. Nixon -Sabre presentation
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-President's remarks -President's review
Ziegler entered at 10:25 am.
ABC "Issues and Answers" -Scali
-Panel -Donald W. Riegle, Jr. -Paul N. (“Pete”) McCloskey, Jr. -Riegle
-Previous discussion with the President -Denial of allegation
-McCloskey -William F. Buckley, Jr. interview
-ABC -Ziegler
-Riegle -1968 campaign
-Michigan Ziegler left at 10:35 am.
West Point visit -President's review
-Departure by helicopter -Mess hall
-Greeting -President's remarks
-Amnesty order -Press coverage
-Timing -Parade -Crowd -Motorcade
-Chapel visit -Trophy point -Superintendent's house
-Possible reception
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-Compared with Newport -Crowd -Chapel
Birmingham visit
-Foreign trips -Advance work
-Crowd location -Automobile
-Leaving
Stephen B. Bull entered at an unknown time after 10:35 am.
Meeting with Ferré -Length
-Photograph -Puerto Rico
Bull left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.
Presidential visits
-Ronald H. Walker -Work
-Alabama -Coverage -Crowd
Haldeman left at an unknown time before 11:04 am.
Conversation No. 505-019
Date: May 28, 1971
Time: 11:04 am - 11:17 am Location: Oval Office
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The President met with Governor Luis A. Ferré, Mrs. Rosario Benigno Trigo, and John C. Whitaker.
Greetings Conditions in Puerto Rico
-Press
-Polls **********************************************************************
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-Next election -Same as US -Luís Munoz Marin -Europe
-Memoirs -Luís A. Ferré’s opinion -Scotch and cigars
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Puerto Rico
-Cooperation from administration -Ferré’s plans
-Institute of Social Technology -Latin Americans
-North Americans -US relations
-Prejudice -Radiologists [?]
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-Governors Conference -Timing -Invitations
-Eduardo Frei Montalva -Galo Plaza, Alberto Lleras Camargo -Mexico
-Antonio Carillo Flores
-Venezuela -Rafael Caldera
-Brazil -Unknown leader
-Politics -South America
-“North-South Center” -Miguel Alemán
-Mexico -Joaquin Balaguer
-South America -Terrorism
-Universities -Church
-Priests -Military
-Peaceful change -Latin Americans -Democratic society -Middle class
-Puerto Ricans -Discrimination -Taxes -US citizens
-Education -Industry
-Latin America -Cuba
-New York Times -Ferré Contacts -Florida -Cubans in Puerto Rico
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-Number -Florida -Cubans
-Negroes -Compared with Cubans
-Cubans -Ownership
-University -Demonstrations -Venezuela -Mrs. Trigo's studies
-Size -Compared with US
-Balaguer -Relations with Latin America
-Dominican Republic -Santo Domingo
-Haiti -Cuba
-Haiti -Population
-Governors' Conference -Haiti
-Compared with Santo Domingo [Dominican Republic] -Geographical proximity -Social makeup
-Government
-Santo Domingo
[Unintelligible]
-Cuba -United Nations [UN] -Puerto Rico -Ferré's statement
-Fidel Castro's possible visit to Puerto Rico -Possible Cuba visit by Ferré
-People's Republic of China [PRC] -Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
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-Puerto Rico -Compared to Hawaii
-North-South Center
-East-West Center -Japanese -Chinese -Indonesians
-Puerto Rican culture -Latin America -Common language and culture
-Brazil
-Manolo Sanchez -John C. Whitaker -Briefing of President -Future contacts with Ferré
-Ferré -Press briefing
-President's position -Understanding
-Peaceful revolution -Commonwealth status -Congress
Ferré -Children
President’s possible visit to Puerto Rico
-Nelson Rockefeller estate -Golf -Governor’s residence
Presentation of gifts by the President -Children of Mrs. Trigo
-Tie clasps -Cuff links
-Golf balls -Paperweight -Children -Secretary
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Photograph
-Car
Tricia Nixon's forthcoming wedding
The President, Ferré, et. al, left at 11:17 am.
Conversation No. 505-020 Date: May 28, 1971 Time: 11:19 am - 11:32 am
Location: Oval Office The President met with Stephen Hess, Dr. Edward Zigler, and Kenneth R. Cole, Jr.; the conversation is in progress when the recording begins; the White House photographer was
present at the beginning of the meeting.
Photo session -Arrangements
White House Conference on Children
-Report
Photograph -Distribution -Copies
The White House photographer left at an unknown time before 11:32 am.
Presentation to the President -Portrait of President by high school student
-Thank you note **********************************************************************
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The President -An experience in 5th grade **********************************************************************
Presidential library -President’s signature
Children’s conference
-Read -Anecdotes
-Arthur G. (“Art”) Linkletter -Children's letters to the President -Dr. Zigler
-White House Conference
-National Child Advocacy Center -Office of Child Development -Function
White House correspondence on children -Establishment of Children's Concern Center
Linkletter
-Book -Letters from kids
Report
-Answering childrens' concerns
Responsiveness of government -Source of ideas for government
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-States -Government
-Size
President's experience in House of Representatives
-Letters -Visits
-Value
Importance of public opinion mail -Ideas
-Compared with government papers -White House staff opinion -Process
The President's appointments -Value
Cancer program proposal
-Funds -Use
Children's concerns
-Amount of attention -Rhetoric -Television -The President's remarks on first five years of life
-Response -Unknown person -Daniel P. (“Pat”) Moynihan -Thelma C. (“Pat”) Nixon
-Follow-up -The right to read
-Publicity -Educational funds
-National Science Foundation [NSF]
Follow-up -Moynihan
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-Hess -Elliot L. Richardson -Hess
Presentation of gifts by the President
-Golf balls -Paperweight
-Cuff-links -Wives -Secretaries
Children's concerns -Compared with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT], Middle East, Vietnam
-Henry A. Kissinger -William P. Rogers
-White House policy Hess, et. al., left at 11:32 am.
Conversation No. 505-021
Date: May 28, 1971 Time: 11:43 am - unknown before 12:08 pm Location: Oval Office
The President met with Torben Ronne and Henry A. Kissinger.
Greetings
Ronne’s tenure in office [?]
Ronne's appreciation
-Departing comments The recording ended at an unknown time before 12:08 pm.